Eduardo Craig's NBDs on Hubba Hideout

Photos of two of the tricks Eduardo Craig did down Hubba Hideout. The switch front blunt appeared in an April 2007 City Skateboards ad, and the switch front tail 270 out appeared on his Who's Hot page from the July 2007 issue of Skateboarder (photo by Dan Z). Not sure who shot the switch front blunt, maybe Dan Z as well. According to @overthinkingskatevideos, the clips were filmed after the Crime In The City video was finished, and only exist as low-quality web clips floating around the internet.

From a comment Jeremy Reeves left when I posted these on Instagram:

[T]his was definitely after crime in the city. Possibly even weeks after. Jimmy Cao and Eddie both came to SF on the same trip as flow guys and stayed for a week or 2. Eddie killed it at hubba that day obviously. Did kf 5050 kf 50 switch tail 270 and sw front blunt. Legendary. Clips were used on thecitystreets website I’m pretty sure and like a lot of other early web stuff is lost or terrible quality. @mikesvenson likely filmed the clips.

BarceLoaded: Nike's Spanish Nights

This October 2010 Skateboarder article covers a trip that Jason Hernandez and a few of the Nike SB team took to Barcelona while filming for the first Chronicles video. Words by Christian Senrud and photos by Ryan Flynn. I'm pretty sure that this article also has the first photo Youness Amrani ever got in a US magazine, along with the Who's Hot page he had in this same issue (included below).

Gilbert Crockett interview - May 2010

In this interview, Gilbert discusses what it was like living in the Black Box dorms, his then-recent departure from Mystery and Fallen, and living with his weed-smoking hippie grandma. Words by Jaime Owens and photos by Jonathan Mehring. Gilbert also had the cover of this issue with a nollie heelflip into a Richmond bank (also shot by Mehring). Coincidentally, three years earlier, he made his first appearance in Skateboarder in the Who's Hot section, where there was also a photo of him doing a nollie heel.

February 2007
photo by Shigeo

New Jack: Steve Durante

The first time I ever saw footage of Steve Durante was in the Habitat Origin video, where he ended his section in the video with a switch 360 flip switch 5-0 on a ledge - I became an instant fan. As I was typing up this post, I also remembered that he had a Who's Hot in the December 2007 Skateboarder - I posted it below the New Jack interview.

sequence: Jonathan Mehring